Collect a leaf from one of the dominant tree species in your area. Use the key resources here to classify the tree.
Tree Comparison/Contrast
Project - Select a local conifer and a deciduous species.
Based on the novel My Side of the Mountain by Jean
Craighead George
Tree Cycles
Investigate - How can trees help reduce a building’s energy use in winter and in summer?
Some trees have become cherished symbols or vital parts of the communities, in which they grow.
Identify one highly valued tree in your region. Why is it revered?
The Giving Shade Tree - Are the trees around your school planted in a way that will reduce energy demands?
Capturing Carbon - Nova Science Now online video Jul. 2008
An eighth-grader's science fair project prompts her scientist father to develop a new way
to pull excess carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
Environmental Scientists Find Tree Combo For Carbon Sequestration
Complete an activity in: If Trees Could Talk
Explore Plants & People to learn about plants and trees and how people have counted on them for many things.
Write three important tips about planting trees.
Tree Rings: A Study of Climate Change complete this scientific modeling project
Inventory & Map the Trees on your school campus or neighborhood - include location, species, size, condition
The Forester consider a career
Ecology Vocabulary Exercise
Do Countdown's Infinite Pine Trees activity watch Part 1| Part 2 print the Worksheet
Compare or contrast a coniferous forest and a deciduous forest
Tree-mendous Technology - Electronic Field Trip
Leaf Classification - learn the importance of classification systems used by scientists.
Tree lineage activity | Plant lineage activity
Inside a Leaf | Leaf Classification
Do this Dichotomous Key activity for two of the species.
Make a Dichotomous Key for a species of tree that grows in your region.
Do
the "Treemendous" Tree Identification activity
Plant
ID Activity - a must
do!
Discover what has happened to the American
Chestnut.
Dr
Arbor Talks about Trees | This Old Habitat - interconnections between the plants and animals
Tree
That Owns Itself article | Explore the Methuselah
Grove
Use
this site to learn about the many ways people use trees.
Classification challenge - trace the classification
of a species of tree found in your community. I'll get you started. Trees belong to
the kingdom Plantae.
They are all Eukaryotes.
Use this worksheet and the Tree
of Life Project to trace a tree from Eukaryotes to the individual
tree species. (MS/HS)
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Reasons to stop topping trees
Deciduous
trees survive in winter | Electronic Naturalist - nature study with materials
Tree
Facts | What
Tree is it? | Plant Parts Facts Activity
Identifying PA. Trees | Identifying
Leaves of Pennsylvania
Tree Pollen Map | Seed Dispersal
Pathfinder Science - "hands-on, minds-on" activities (student scientists not just science students)
Ininatig's Gift of Sugar The Tradition of Native Sugarmaking
From the Woods - Community Forests
Tales from Urban Forest | Tree color
Trees - who lives there? | Do this Life Cycle activity
Trees + Me = Forestry pdf | From the Woods
Fields, Meadows and Fencerows EcoStudy Unit | Wetlands EcoStudy Unit
Back to Leaf it to me - A Tree Facts internet hunt